Is that solid rock? A HE or fragmentation warhead wouldn’t leave a large crater then.

It would if it was incased in steel travelling at about 550mph. Also looks very soily underneath, note brown.

The same thing is being reported in many outlets. Not just CNN. It sounds to me like a few of the cruise missiles launched yesterday may have malfunctioned.

Iranian outlets are also reporting it.
http://oyannews.com/%D8%AA%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA-%D8%B4%DB%8C-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3/

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/652185829620744192

Wow, a 450kg warhead broke some glass and left the rest of the building in tact. What were they using in the warhead, gunpowder?

One source reports blast but crater is only 1-2ft deep, so people of Twitter saying it didn’t detonate, just crashed, so why are the windows cracked?

I wonder if ISIS will try tunneling under Russian positions. They’ve played that tactic against the Syrian Army, does Russia have any way of detecting that?

Why are the intakes blocked?

There are no Su-25Ts left in service.

If you want Vihr, you need the Ka-52. Unfortunately Kalashnikov and company have cocked up the Vihr order, so none are available yet (well, not en masse anyways), and they would realistically operate only with Ataka.

What about the Su-25SM?

I though Atakas were used by Mi-28 and Vikhr-M were used by Ka-50/52?

The topic is Syria; I don’t see anybody mentioning that it’s an invention of the current regime, just that it’s indiscriminately dropped over the cities out of their control for no other purpose than punishing the civilians which are supposed to be their own people. So, you’re saying that Saudi Air Force aims their PGM’s at civilian targets? Have any proof for such claims? I’m not debating their intervention, but there is a however slight difference between intentionally bombing the civilians and those who are hit as a collateral. Not that it matters to the victims, granted, but at least occurrences are less numerous and the numbers that die are much smaller.

Besides, barrel bombing was never the topic of the argument, but generalization of all rebel groups ideologically unacceptable to general Western public as being the same based on e.g. some individual example caught on video.

A recent news article stated that Saudi bombing in Yemen was responsible for more civilian deaths than the terrorism.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/10/01/444912621/u-s-backed-saudi-bombing-campaign-blamed-for-civilian-deaths-in-yemen
http://www.voanews.com/content/civilian-death-toll-in-yemen-wedding-attack-hits-130/2983833.html

From Caspian not Mediterranean. Must have flown over Iran and Iraq

Where’s the article BTW?

Russian MoD now says that they have launched 26 cruise missile strikes from their warships in the Mediterranean, against targets 1500km into Syria.

What kind of missiles would that be? Kalibr?

What kind of Syria would that be? It’s only 750km across at its widest point.